Oxford History of the Classical Greek World

The Oxford History of the Classical Greek World (OHCGW) offers a new comprehensive account of the history and culture of ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Over seven volumes, the series deals with all aspects of the Greek world during this seminal period of Classical antiquity, from the Persian Wars to the Age of Alexander the Great. The scope is broad both in geographic and temporal terms. Ancient Greece is typically understood as the Aegean Sea and its littoral regions, with an emphasis on the southern end of the Balkan peninsula. OHCGW pays close attention to this space but also explores developments in the larger Greek world, including much of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions. In doing so, the series accounts for the tight interplay between Greek and non-Greek cultures. It also moves away from traditional narratives, crafting an account that is appropriate for a twenty-first-century global audience. A diverse international team of scholars at different stages of professional careers bring to the series different disciplinary and academic traditions from a wide range of scholarly contexts. The slate of contributions reflects the editors' ideas about the role of the history of Classical Greece within a modern, globalized, and diversified world. To this effect, OHCGW is guided by several conceptual and analytical principles, including alertness to the local diversity; decentered historical narratives; entangled story-telling and diverse focalizations; the integration of literary and material bodies of evidence. OHCGW is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the topics and subjects that are the focus of scholarly investigation among experts working in the fields of Ancient History and Classical Studies. Volume I: Environment and Resources turns to the physical world inhabited by the ancient Greeks and how they interacted with this world, highlighting how creative responses to the environment nourished a bouquet of rich cultural practices that became formative for Greek civilization.

Hans Beck is Professor and Chair of Greek History at the University of Münster, an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of many books, including Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State; A Companion to Ancient Greek Government; and, with Julia Kindt, The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion. Among other distinctions, he is the recipient of the German Humboldt Foundation's Anneliese Maier Research Prize. Christy Constantakopoulou is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation and Professor Emerita in Classics and Ancient History, Birkbeck College, London. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries. Her previous publications include The Dance of the Islands: Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World; Aegean Interactions: Delos and Its Networks in the Third Century; and, co-edited with Irad Malkin and Katerina Panagopoulou, Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean. Jeremy McInerney is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Centaurs and Snake-Kings: Hybrids and the Greek Imagination, The Cattle of the Sun: Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks, and The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis, and the editor of A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean. He serves on the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.